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Chronic graft-versus-host disease and other late complications of bone marrow transplantation.

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This article is published in Seminars in Hematology.The article was published on 1991-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 728 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Graft-versus-host disease.

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Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)-specific comorbidity index: a new tool for risk assessment before allogeneic HCT.

TL;DR: The new simple index provided valid and reliable scoring of pretransplant comorbidities that predicted nonrelapse mortality and survival and will be useful for clinical trials and patient counseling before HCT.
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Graft-versus-host disease

TL;DR: The understanding of the risk factors and causes of GHVD, the cellular and cytokine networks implicated in its pathophysiology, and current strategies to prevent and treat the disease are reviewed.
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Hematopoietic cell transplantation in older patients with hematologic malignancies: replacing high-dose cytotoxic therapy with graft-versus-tumor effects

TL;DR: A novel allografting approach, based on the use of postgrafting immunosuppression to control graft rejection and GVHD, has dramatically reduced the acute toxicities of allogRAFTing.
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